Welcome to Rio Rancho Family Counseling Center

A Healthy Mind is a Wealthy Soul

Our minds affect every aspect of our lives, from our relationships to our work performance. Taking care of our mental health is essential for overall well-being and happiness.

Consultation

Want to check us out first? We offer a free first time consult to make sure we are a good fit.

Therapy

We offer many different therapy options to support you and your family. See our large array of services here.

Comfort

We provide a safe, relaxing, and private environment where you can express without judgment.

About Rio Rancho

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“We empower the people who come to see us, and they leave happier than when they arrived, with a better sense of themselves.”

Bart and Ruth Schofield

Co-Owners/Founders

Expert Therapists

We offer an open, caring and supportive atmosphere and the strong person-centered approach of the clinicians.

Confidentiality

Your confidentiality is paramount with us. See our Full Patient Privacy Notice

“You saved my life.”

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The Conditions We Treat

IFS – Internal Family Systems
(aka our inner parts and voices)

A major part of our method includes helping our clients to develop their inner parts or learn to pay attention to one’s inner chatter of the mind for their own personal growth. We discuss how each of us has parts that have different talents, insights, and tasks which when managed, well directed, and coordinated can lead to our richer more fulfilling life. With compassion, caring, and clarity we encourage clients to explore their parts and talents as they develop their new path to happiness and their goals for today and their future.

Adults, couples, teens, and even children all find they can learn how to work with their inner parts for their own enjoyment and balance in life.

Family Systems

Family Systems is about you and your family of origin and the influences those family members, relationships, and lives may have influenced yours. It is about examining one’s history and determining if the path we are currently following is one of fulfillment …. Or examining what is no longer useful and developing our more mature and adult self while learning some methods and skills as we change and evolve to create our improved direction and goals.

Trauma

At Rio Rancho Family Counseling Center, we have had training and experience in trauma work. Our clinicians know how important it is to listen, to validate the experiences which may have created out-of-date coping systems which now require some updating. During the therapy process clients learn to use a variety of methods which help support them on the ‘road to recovery’ from their trauma history. Clients learn that parts of this trauma are valuable for them, and their history is what has influenced who they have become. During therapy this is sorted out and the assets are kept while the liabilities are removed or diminished, and replaced with more fulfilling strategies and coping skills.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Learning to manage a habit or behavior that gets in our way can be directly addressed with cognitive behavioral techniques and new behaviors can be learned. Clients find they develop new methods of self-monitoring leading to an easier, smoother life for themselves and those they live with.

Therapy for Children

At Rio Rancho Family Counseling Center, we offer a variety of client centered strategies that facilitate a child’s growth or ‘corrective actions’. These include helping youngsters to gain insight and resolution of problems with the use of IFS (Internal Family Systems aka parts work), play therapy, including art therapy, games and other creative methods which can provide an opportunity for the child to gain a better awareness of the impact of his behavior while developing more acceptable behaviors.

Couples Therapy

Couples find that communication styles and differences in family rearing can block them from the friendship and intimacy of their marriage. In couples counseling with gentle discussion and examination of these differences and patterns - which typically came from their family of origin -are what prevent them from learning about each other’s style. Once a couple becomes more aware of this, they can develop their own couple pattern for their own individual marriage.

Parent-Child Therapy

Many of us discover the methods of our parents are no longer suitable for our modern families. Counseling with parents and their children are one vehicle that families can use to develop and work out more useful and acceptable guidelines for their children and their family.

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Why Choose Rio Rancho Family Counseling?

We Take Care of Your Mental Health

Don’t be afraid to seek professional help if you are struggling. Your mental well-being matters, so make it a priority in your daily routine.

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Justin Client

"The best of the best. I recommend Rio Rancho Family Counseling with my whole heart, soul, and mind... An amazing group of qualified counselors for your whole family, couples, children or individual therapy as well."

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Phoenix Client

"Great group of people."

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Jess Client

"My therapist is awesome! So happy I found them."

Anxiety Can be Discussed

It is important if you are experiencing anxiety to seek help from a mental health professional. With the right treatment and support, it is possible to manage and overcome anxiety disorders.

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Come see us

Make An Appointment

You can make an appointment with us however you feel most comfortable. Call, email, or just stop by!

Address

333 Rio Rancho Drive NE, Suite 200
Rio Rancho, NM 87124

Hours by Appointment

Monday through Thursday 9am - 7pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

Our Stages

Because All Problems Have Solutions

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Final Result

We are hiring!

We are a small group of clinicians who share our space, knowledge, expenses, and learnings. As part of this sharing, we sometimes ‘teach’ one another about methods, and skills we have learned previously through our own experiences, in supervision, as well as, at seminars, online, and from our readings. Our common purpose is to assist our clients to empower them to develop their own personhood, talents, and skills.

We provide supervision to augment your learning during which we discuss and share situations of clients as we provide guidance, strategies, training all of which is part of the supervisory relationship. We explore your own history and family of origin; we may discuss how those can influence your ability to provide the best therapy possible.

This deepening of knowledge continues with your own readings, and seminars, as well as the mutual support of one another.

If this sounds like the kind of setting that fits YOU, please contact us to schedule an interview.

Michelle Welch, LMFT

505-814-1460